Dr. Joseph Giordano, the surgeon credited with saving President Ronald Reagan’s life after a 1981 assassination attempt and remembered for one of the pithiest comebacks ever uttered in an operating room, has died at the age of 84.
Giordano’s family announced this week that he passed last month at a hospital in Washington, DC, from an infection caused by a lengthy illness.
Giordano was in charge of the George Washington University Hospital (GW) trauma team that worked on the president after he was shot by would-be assassin John Hinkley Jr. on March 30, 1981, as the president emerged from the Hilton Hotel after a speaking engagement.
In a series of procedures, physicians stabilized Reagan, who had insisted on walking into the hospital under
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